Flight (Golf)
In golf, a flight is a group of players who play together from hole to hole. This consists of at least two and i. d. Usually a maximum of four players.
For safety reasons, there is only one flight in a certain area of a golf course , so that people playing further ahead are not injured by golf balls being cut. At different game speeds the flights can be passed at a suitable point, for example if the pre-flight is searching for the ball or is still on the tee . A slow flight is obliged to let the faster flight play through.
On a golf course, a flight can normally start every ten minutes, but intervals of eight or twelve minutes are also common. The optimal number depends heavily on the architecture of the respective course, as well as on the speed of the individual flights. If the time intervals are too long, the capacity of the space is not used, but if it is too short, there will be game delays due to traffic jams.
In the Anglo-Saxon-speaking world, flight is an unknown term for a playgroup. In English, the term is - depending on the size of the group - Twoball, Threeball or Fourball. In American one uses the terms twosome, threesome or foursome. Instead, the term is used for a rating group in tournaments. For example, the “Championship Flight” is the number of players who were able to qualify for the club championship.
The composition of flights at tournaments is not uniformly regulated, there are several systems with different advantages and disadvantages:
- According to handicap : the best (and supposedly fastest) golfers play first, the supposedly slowest golfers at the end, where they can't stop anyone.
- according to the results of previous rounds: the leaders play at the end, so that the tension regarding the tournament victory is maintained as long as possible.
- high / medium / low: every flight has bad, mediocre and good players (handicap high, medium or low), so that an even game speed is achieved.
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- ^ S. Maiwald: Golf. Small Philosophy of Passions , dtv, unabridged edition, May 2008, page 118